root problems!

[Alan Dayley]

At 07:55 AM 9/27/02 -0700, you wrote:
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>If he has made bash non-executable then I don't see how this will work either.
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>I doubt the box will ever boot since /etc/inittab calls /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit
>and the first line of sysinit is:
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>#!/bin/bash
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>or
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>#!/bin/sh
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>It is probably time to break out the alternative boot media and fix the file
>permissions...
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>Two questions Alan:
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>1) What dist. are you running?
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>2) Is /bin/sh a hard link to /bin/bash? On my Mandrake boxes it is a soft
>link. (ls -i will show the inode number of the file)
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>- --
>KevinO
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>Matz's Law:
>~        A conclusion is the place where you got tired of thinking.
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Insightful, Kevin.

I logged out of the computer and could not log back in.  Permission errors 
on bash.  So the next time I try to boot it will have to be alternative 
boot media, ie. a rescue CD.

To answer your questions:
1) Red Hat 7.3
2) Since I can't get to that box right now, I don't know.  But checking a 
box here at work, ls -l output is:
#ls -l sh
lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root           4 Jul  8 02:03 sh -> bash
#ls -l bash
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root      541096 Apr 12 09:09 bash

So, what you are saying is that I changed bash to be non-executable?  So 
the procedure would be to boot from alternative media as root, get to the 
/bin directory and change bash back to the correct permissions.  Right?

Boy, I really should not be using chmod until I understand it!

Alan